Opening Scholarly Communication in Social Sciences by Connecting Collaborative Authoring to Peer Review

TL;DR

This paper presents an integrated platform combining Fidus Writer and OJS to enhance collaborative scholarly communication workflows in social sciences, supporting authors, reviewers, editors, and readers.

Contribution

It introduces a novel integration of a collaborative authoring tool with a peer review management system for social sciences.

Findings

Successful implementation of Fidus Writer and OJS integration

Improved workflow for social science scholarly communication

Enhanced collaboration among authors, reviewers, and editors

Abstract

The objective of the OSCOSS research project on "Opening Scholarly Communication in the Social Sciences" is to build a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers. This paper presents the implementation of the core of this environment: the integration of the Fidus Writer academic word processor with the Open Journal Systems (OJS) submission and review management system.